Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MR. GETTHINGSDONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS



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First Line: Phil ossifize is a very big man
Last Line: We need mr. Getthingsdone.
Subject(s): Activity; World War I; Exercise; First World War


Phil Ossifize is a very big man,
And he owns a wonderful brain;
He can furnish a perfectly marvellous plan,
He is great when he comes to explain;
But when we are caught in a very big war,
And the war must be speedily won,
We have no time for a speculator,
We need Mr. Getthingsdone.

Putitinprint is a glorious chap,
He can write in a masterful way;
He has elegant phrases forever on tap,
And he always knows what to say;
But when guns bellow and soldiers bleed
And the war-cloud swallows the sun,
Rhetoric isn't the thing that we need,
We need Mr. Getthingsdone.

Wholeloafornone sees far, far ahead,
He is great on the Ultimate Goal,
He wants the Ideal and nothing instead,
And he owns an inflexible soul;
But there isn't much room in the midst of a fight
For the dreamy Wholeloafornone;
We need the vim and the very present might
Of the bold Mr. Getthingsdone.

Mr. Getthingsdone wields a very clumsy pen,
And his tongue is clumsy too,
But he knows his job and he knows his men,
And he knows how to put things through.
He is not polite, he is not high-brow,
And he crudely hates the Hun;
But we need him badly and we need him now,
We need Mr. Getthingsdone.





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